Thank you both for your views on the Brexit issue.
I don't know whether members/contributors to this web-site are apathetic to the whole issue, or, no longer live in the UK so think that it no longer impacts them directly, or have moved to that great workshop in the great beyond and are no longer with us, but I will take your opinions as reflecting the older generation.
I totally agree with Geordie in the fact " if you did'nt vote, don't complain".
Tony raised an interesting issue that affects most of the Western democracies.....Immigrants.
Immigrants that are fleeing incredibly brutal regimes and economies that are at best at starvation levels.
Mr Trump has taken a leaf out of the pages of "Mein Kampf", taking Hitler's accusations that Jews and sub-human slavs bring crime, disease and the dilution of pure blood, and applied it to this "caravan" of Latinos about to enter the USA. Throw into this toxic mix that there are also "middle easterners" in the middle, and you have perfect political rhetoric that appeals to the far right, evangelical christians and members of the idiot KKK in their silly pointy hats.
Given the fact that Americans are facing crucial elections within the fortnight, the issue of the "caravan" has become inflamatory.
Trump's message of making "America great again" conveniently ignores the fact that America was made great because she allowed the flotsam/jetsam of two world wars, and not to mention the starved due to the Irish potato famine to emigrate to the USA.
Perhaps he should read the words written at the base of the Statute of Liberty pertaining to America's policy towards immigrants of all colours, all faiths, all nationalities.
I am not proposing that all western democracies should open their borders willy-nilly (after all how many can Monaco absorb?), but how, in all good conscience can we turn away mothers carrying children fleeing the carnage in their own countries?
We in the west throw away more food in one year than what most of these corrupt banana republics produce. No wonder these people only ask to share in our left-overs, clean our toilets and drive our taxi-cabs/buses.
OK...down from my soap-box. Having been a refugee (a DP) you can see where my sympathies lie.
Again thank you both for your inputs.
Fred
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